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Proto Martyr. But first, some yes. Yes. the river flows to your life to go and ship them out in my seconds.

We stand no taller than the grasses.

Should you really chase a heart? seems. That's a little bit of the song Going for The One, the title track off Yes, its 1997 album. Today we're doing a classic album

dissection of going for the one exploring its context history and its rich music.

Later in the show we're going to talk with Yes's lead singer, John Anderson,

about the writing and recording process and how going for the one impacted the band's trajectory forever.

But first, for listeners who do not know why yes was important, yes is one of the foundational

bands in the progressive rock movement that came mostly out of England just in the years after Sergeant Pepper's

Lonely Hearts Club band and the psychedelic explosion of 67.

You had a slightly younger than the Beatles generation of mostly upper middle class or just

plain upper class art students in England who with Sergeant Peppers were given permission by

none other than the Beatles to begin to think of Rock as capital A art.

What's more, these are kids who had grown up

with violin and piano lessons, right?

And grand pianos at home, and maybe even a grandfather's or grandmothers

strativarius, right? These were excellent musicians steeped in classical music

who decide to take the consciousness in every sense of that word,

psychedelic consciousness, the consciousness of what could be done in multi-track recording in the studio, the virtuosity that they had

mastered even as young musicians, to put it all together in this mix that right in the name of the genre says progressive

we are moving rock forward.

Now a lot of excess was committed in the name of progressive rock. But the best bands in the

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